The Defense Department is asking Congress to water down statutory notification requirements for major acquisition programs with soaring costs tied to quantity cuts. In a legislative proposal sent to Capitol Hill last week, the Pentagon proposes further reducing the statutory requirements for critical Nunn-McCurdy breaches caused primarily by quantity changes. The requirement targeted for deletion by the Pentagon directs the department's Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses (PARCA) shop to review the performance of each major defense acquisition program that...
